

John Kane-Berman
John Kane-Berman, a graduate of Wits and Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), is a former CEO of the IRR. Prior to that he spent ten years in journalism, where he was senior assistant editor of the Financial Mail and South African correspondent for numerous foreign papers. He is the author of several books on South African politics, and has also published his memoirs.
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Renewables are more costly and risky the deeper you dig
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Jun 6, 2022
It’s now almost an article of faith among energy writers in the bulk of the media that “renewables” are the best form of energy from

The Climate Change Bill is a monstrous absurdity
- By John Kane-Berman
- . May 23, 2022
Even by the standards of the African National Congress (ANC), the 2022 Climate Change Bill is an absurdity. For starters it subverts the efforts of

Demographic delusions at the University of Cape Town
- By John Kane-Berman
- . May 9, 2022
In today’s climate, it takes courage for an academic to speak out publicly against his university’s racial preferencing policies. That, however, is what David Benatar

Fear and loathing at the University of Cape Town
- By John Kane-Berman
- . May 2, 2022
To read this book is to descend into an Orwellian world of topsy-turvy logic, thoughtcrime, doublethink, betrayal, cruelty, lies, and fear. But George Orwell described

The anti-semitic origins of diversity and racial “representation”
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Apr 25, 2022
Writing recently on Politicsweb, James Myburgh described how a German think-tank put out a report in 1936 highlighting the “dangerous” over-representation of Jews in high

Greens fume as Boris Johnson inches towards more oil and gas
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Apr 18, 2022
Earlier this month Boris Johnson’s government published a new “British energy security strategy” in terms of which “a licensing round for new North Sea oil

The West makes a mockery of “safety”
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Mar 28, 2022
Safe spaces. In Ukraine they include underground metro stations and other places where thousands upon thousands of people are sheltering from the missiles, shells, and

The Nats valued education, but the ANC fears it
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Mar 21, 2022
Writing last week on PoliticsWeb, the historian Hermann Giliomee disputed claims that there were major similarities between the cadre deployment policies of the present South

How The New York Times covered up famine in Ukraine
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Mar 14, 2022
Six weeks ago, as Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, this column described how Stalin killed 3.9 million Ukrainians by starvation in the early 1930s. He

Russia and the West: miscalculations all round
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Mar 7, 2022
Numerous commentators have branded Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine a “miscalculation”. But Western leaders have themselves made major miscalculations, nobody more so than the former